94 An Account of Mr. Brown's ice 
my watch and a copy of Erpenius’s grammar I had with me, 
Ue afked to fee both; but after cafting his eyes on each, he 
returned them. The prefent I had brought was thewn him 3 
for which he thanked me, and rofe to retire. 
*“* During the following fummer the firft time F got ad-. 
miffion to him he was holding a diyan in the outer court. 
He was then mounted on a white mule with a fearlet deni/h, 
and had on his head a white turban; which however, toge- 
ther with part of his face, was covered with a thick muflin. 
On his feet were yellow boots; and the faddle on which he 
was feated was of crimfon velvet, without any ornament of 
gold or filver. His fword, which was broad and ftraight, 
and adorned with a hilt of mafly gold, was held horizontally 
in his right hand. A fmall canopy of muflin was fupported 
over his head. Amid the noife and hurry of above a thou- 
fand perfons, who were there aflembled, I was unable to 
make myfelf heard, which the nature of my fituation enabled 
me to attempt, though not exactly conformable to the eti- 
quette of the court, that, almoft to the exclufion of ftrangers, 
had appropriated the divan to the troops, the Arabs, and 
others connected with the government. 
“© On another occafion I contrived to gain ‘admittance te 
the interior court by a bribe. The Sultan was hearing a 
caufe of a private nature, the proceedings on which were 
only in the Furian language. He was feated on a kind of 
chair, which was covered with a Turkey carpet, and wore a 
red filk turban; his face was then uncovered; the imperial 
fword was placed acrofs his knees; and his hands were en- 
gaged with a chaplet of red coral. Being near him, I fixed 
my eyes on him in order to have a perteét idea of his coun- 
tenance; which, being fhort-fighted, I had hitherto fearcely 
found an opportunity of acquiring. He feemed evidently dif- 
compofed at my having obferved him thus, and the moment 
the caufe was at an end he retired very abruptly. Some 
perfons to whom I afterwards remarked the circumftance, 
feemed to think that his attendants had taught him to fear 
the magic of thie Franks, to the operation of which the habit 
of taking likeneffes is imagined by fome of the Orientals to 
eonduce. He is a man rather under the middle fize, of a 
complexion 
